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Hi there! It’s time for our sixth episode of A+ Inbox LIVE! If you’re a first-time listener, A+ Inbox LIVE! is where Riese, Heather, Yvonne, Rachel and I choose some questions from the A+ Priority Inbox and answer them live on a podcast, using amateur recording equipment and very little editing! It’s casual and honest and very 2006. You can dig back into the archives for previous episodes to feed into your ear canals.
On this week’s special *Voicemail Only* show, thanks to calls from YOU GEMS, we’re discussing sandwiches (but not really!!), beginning to make friends after depression and with anxiety, and the joys of a world that looks and acts just like A-Camp.
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Riese, your coloring page is amazing.
Also, Heather, I had no idea you hated everything about hot dogs so much!
Rachel, I took a ton of those sparksnotes quizzes bc they had a lot that were like “is your brain a boy brain or a girl brain” or “is your sould a girl soul or a boy soul” or “what would your girl name be (for boys)” and things like that that teen me was obsessed with
One time my family inexplicably found itself owning a copy of the book “Dateable”
Which is a book about how to make boys / girls like you using Christian Values and Abstinence and literally compares teen girls to meat, complete with cartoon pictures of meat hanging on meat hooks
Anyway it’s a gross book, my mom is a man Hating atheist and my dad is the most feminist person I know, so I have no idea why we owned it
But it had QUIZZES
And I was v upset that those quizzes said I wasn’t “mysterious” enough
(aka, stop talking, silly Girl! Boys Don’t Care About Your Silly Girl Thoughts!! In retrospect I’m sad I didn’t realize how awful this book was)
I took these quizzes with my Best Friend, with whom things ended badly, because I was in love with her and also because I was an asshole
I think I wanted her to like the book because the take home message was “Maybe Don’t Date!! Ever” and she always had boyfriends and they never liked me and I, obviously, wasn’t their biggest fan either
But could you like scan the pages and share it with us ? Or send the book to Erin so she can make a glorious post about it ? I’m so curious now !
mey, i took sparknotes quizzes about how gay I was or wasn’t, and once my dad found them in a browser history and berated me for a super long time about it and how I wasn’t allowed to read those or consider being gay! i wish that teen mey and teen rachel could have compared their sparknotes scores.
jaja! that’s so great! our teen selves totally should’ve compared quiz scores!
Here ‘s the thing: tofu dogs aren’t GOOD in and of themselves, they are a VEHICLE FOR SPICY MUSTARD
The Good Fake Chicken Nuggets are like $6 for as many nuggets and I’m a Baller On A Budget; I Have NEEDS
Plus, they can’t really be any faker than real chicken nuggets, honestly
I will say this about tofu pups:
I Know What Is In Them. I will never chomp down on something crunchy and have to just assume it’s probably cartilage.
Like they are mushy and gross, but at least I have a basic understanding of Exactly How Gross
Yves vegan dogs are good they look like pork hot dogs and they’re not mushy. I don’t eat them often but like at a cookout where they’re making a ton of hot dogs I will buy them and eat them.
“except that this time God doesn’t care” #DEAD
But also u only exist rn b/c God is loving you into being, which somehow sounded less creepy when my priest said it, so like
IDK maybe God DOES care
YES I WAS RIGHT IN THE LAST LIVE POST, SOMEONE WAS DRAWING AND IT WAS RIESE.
Thank you for including it, it is GLORIOUS.
Also that conversation about making friends was great ! I have so much trouble going on “friends second date”. Like I make a friend and they’re great, and we’re having fun. And then it’s 4 months later and i’m like “shit I should try to get in touch with this person again”. I feel like then the only friendships that are working right now are with people who are exactly like me. I’ll contact them out of the blue “let’s hang out” and they’ll be like “great let’s catch up”!
SLEUTH
Dying when you said “my mom said i should make straight friends” and everyone at the same time is like why??!
And I’m sitting here laughing to myself looking around for someone to tell how funny i found it and….everyone is straight. SO YEAH…why???! ;)
Riese, at the first camp there was a small group of us standing outside of LAX waiting for our shuttle and you galloped over and seemingly no one else recognized or acknowledged you at all. It still boggles me a little.
re: being forced into conversation while getting a haircut, I found it painful when I had long hair but nowadays it’s even worse with clippers loudly buzzing around my ear. so awkward.
ok this seems a lot like when a dentist asks you questions while your mouth is clamped open. what even.
I also feel weird sometimes at camp that I’ve read all the things y’all have written, like, I don’t pretend I haven’t, but I also kinda pretend I haven’t?
Also, were there just not that many voice mails? I didn’t even properly ask a question. IF YOU KEEP PUTTING ON THE WEBSITE WHEN I PLUG THE WEBSITE QUEERS ARE GONNA THINK I’M A SHILL
(I am one, though)
I DO NOT THINK YOU’RE A SHILL I THINK YOU JUST HAVE REALLY GOOD TASTE.
Hot dog is absolutely not a sandwich
Thank you.
meat between bread!
Does a hot dog exist in a designation all on its own? Does it transcend meat-between-bread realms? Why are hot dogs harnessing all this power? What are they planning?
Wait! What about Santa?!